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Olympics in an Age of Global Broadcasting

August 10, 2004
For forty years now, the Olympic Games have been televised to audiences around the globe, providing a public forum for assertions of national greatness and claims of superiority. In this context, writes Olympics scholar Emma Wensing, international sport "can be seen as a substitute for war,...

Luxury Industry Goes Global, Knock-Offs Follow

February 3, 2006
When Giuseppe Festa, an Italian man who owned a small store in Naples became involved in counterfeiting, he also became a global businessman. Mr. Festa imported watches from Hong Kong through Georgian and Egyptian contacts, paid for the goods through New York and Swiss bank accounts, and...

Bloomberg: Huawei Agrees to Deal to Help African Expats Send Money Home

July 25, 2017
The Chinese company Huawei, the world’s largest maker of telecom equipment, has partnered “with British money-transfer operator WorldRemit Ltd” in order to “tap into growing demand for money transfers from Africans living abroad using mobile-payments services,” reports Loni Prinsloo for Bloomberg....

The Interpreter: International Rescue and the Thai Cave Response

July 5, 2018
Disasters bring the international community together. Rescue, medical and engineering specialists gather at the scene to offer expert opinions and plan search-and-rescue operations as viewers watch, wait and send donations: the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 2010 Chilean mine, the 2014 Malaysian...

Report Sounds Alarm on Pace of Arctic Climate Change

October 31, 2004
One of the key issues separating the candidates in the upcoming US election is environmental policy. John Kerry has pledged to bring the United States back in sync with international initiatives to protect the environment; an arena he claims has been neglected by his opponent. This position may win...

Attitudes to Water in South Asia

July 21, 2014
Per-capita water use is low and declining in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and even Nepal and Bangladesh – and water disputes exacerbate strained relations, suggests a Chatham House report, with Gareth Price as the lead author. About 90 percent of the water is used for agriculture. Competition...

People on the Move – Part II

June 16, 2011
Poorer nations drive the world’s population growth while developed nations with aging populations are in need of young labor. Strategic policies on immigration can fill the gaps, but social, economic and diplomatic challenges emerge when the immigrants are treated as less than equal partners. With...

Wars That Defy Categorization

September 6, 2007
Some events have background stories that encompass centuries of history, offering immense complexity. Such is the case with the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the September 11 attacks of 2001 and the ongoing war in Iraq, suggests author Dilip Hiro. Analysts of the West underestimate how resentment and...
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